In church and state alike he prized institutions and the great organs of corporate life; but what he thought of most and cared for and sought after most, was not their mechanism, though on that too he set its value, but the living spirit within the institution.
Morley reflects on Gladstone's prioritization of the spirit within institutions over their structural mechanisms.
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I don't myself believe in artful diplomacy; I have no gift for it.
Turgot was one of the men to whom good government is a religion.
They hope to attract that good will which must, after all, be the real foundation of our prosperity and strength in India.
But as I read it, as I listen to serious Indian experts with large experience, it all sounds estrangement and alienation even though it be no worse than superficial.
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